Sentences with phrase «new wheat varieties»
The discovery may help scientists develop new wheat varieties and strategies that protect the world's food crops against the wheat stem rust pathogen.
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«These harness the best of organic farming combined with new technologies to better monitor the nutritional status of soils and plants and to recycle waste and with the promise of new wheat varieties able to utilise soil nitrogen more efficiently.»
This research quantifies the impact of weather, diseases and new wheat varieties on yields.
The discovery may help scientists develop new wheat varieties and strategies that protect the world's food crops against the wheat stem rust pathogen that is spreading from Africa to the breadbaskets of Asia and can cause significant crop losses.
Farm management practices and new wheat varieties have increased wheat yields 4-fold in Australia over the last 120 years.
NEW DELHI, INDIA — A new wheat variety that yields a whopping 18 tons per hectare was unveiled here yesterday at a conference sponsored by the International Wheat and Maize Improvement Center (CIMMYT) in Mexico.
They will also prepare a list of the genetic codes of the fungus — the so - called effectors — that are responsible for the ability of the fungus to adapt to new wheat varieties.
But the scientists said that new wheat varieties (small pdf), developed as a result of an aggressive international breeding project, are not only resistant to the fungus but produce better yields than many conventional wheat types.